Purpose - To investigate the consequence of COVID-19 pandemic on the financial reporting and disclosure (FRD) practices, the study has been conducted. Moreover, this paper highlights the significance of FRD practices in any emergency period and its relevance with legitimacy theory in Bangladesh...

The phenomenon of creative accounting has attracted the attention of researchers for decades, especially in the financial sector for its implications on the quality of financial reporting. Although several procedures have been developed by researchers and practitioners to determine any...

Research Question/Issue: This paper examines whether CEOs whose writing is more difficult to read is a signal or proxy for difficulty in monitoring their activities, resulting in increased monitoring costs. If so, does this increased monitoring cost result in higher performance-pay sensitivity...

The main function behind the conceptualization of creative accounting is maintaining the quality of financial reporting practice. This phenomenon has attracted the attention of researchers for decades, especially in the banking sector, concerning its wide implications and indications for...

Creative accounting is considered to be a 21st-century phenomenon that has received increased attention after the worldwide economic crisis and budget deficits, particularly the prevention and detection of accounting manipulation. Creative accounting is a practice that influences financial...

This work analyses whether financial information quality is relevant to explaining firms’ probability of default. A financial default prediction model for SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) is presented, which includes not only traditional measures but also financial reporting quality (FRQ)...

This study examines the effect of audit committee attributes on the incidence of annual financial restatement. A sample of 96 firms (66 of which were restatement firms) was examined for the period 2008 to 2017 and controlled for firm size. Using a logit model regression analyses were carried out...

An extensive literature examines whether senior executives’ contractual incentives influence their financial reporting decisions. However, little is known about whether— and how—the incentives of lower-level (or “rank-and-file”) employees, who are perhaps even more directly involved in...

Conducting informative profitability and valuation analyses requires reformulating the financial statements to separate operating activities—the core of value creation—from financing and other nonoperating activities. It also requires distinguishing between recurring and transitory items in...

This paper examines the association between non-executive employee shareholding and financial reporting quality. The analysis is conducted using a sample of non-financial firms listed in eleven European countries between 2006 and 2017. We find a positive association between non-executive...

Financial statements represent an instrument by which relevant information about a company is passed on to its users. Based on the information presented in the financial statements, i.e. information on the financial position and performance of the company, and generated cash flows and capital,...

A fundamental role of financial reporting is to provide information useful in forecasting future cash flows. Applying up-to-date time series modelling techniques, this study provides direct evidence on the usefulness of quarterly data in predicting future operating cash flows. Moreover, we show...

This study investigated the effect of auditor's independence on the financial reporting quality of Parastatals in Lagos State, Nigeria. A survey was conducted to gather data on auditor's independence and a content analysis procedure was adopted to extract secondary data from the audited...

Purpose: Based on signal theory and legitimacy theory, this paper examines whether firms with financial reporting misstatements (restatements) would prefer conservative financial reporting to send signals regarding their determinants of improving financial reporting credibility and legitimate...

This study examined the effect of auditor independence on financial reporting quality of deposit money banks in Nigeria with Financial Reporting Quality as the dependent variable; Audit Fee, Audit Firm Size and Audit Meeting as independent variables, Debt Ratio as control variable. The sample...

The present study aims to realize and become more familiar with the impact and the functions of audit committee and its characteristics, including the expertise and independence of members, related experiences, and change of auditor on the quality of financial reporting in companies listed on...

The research aims to examine and evaluate the accounting information disclosure (AID) quality of the non-current tangible assets in the annual financial statements of private sector entities of Lithuania and identify characteristics of these enterprises that have an impact on the AID quality....

Financial statement preparers often make accounting judgments with considerable uncertainty about what future accounting standards will require. We conduct a study in the experimental economics tradition to investigate how such uncertainty affects preparers’ current period accounting...

This essay explores the nature of flexibility in accounting, why it exists and its consequences for financial reporting. Flexibility in accounting (as opposed to rigidity or uniformity in accounting) offers preparers of accounting reports the ability to make acceptable adaptations or variations...

In Africa, the transparency quality of financial disclosures appears to rank below expectations after several years of adopting IFRS. Some scholars advocate for the deployment of multi investigative models as a complement during Financial Statements audit to help secure reasonable transparency...

The ability of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) in surviving in the midst of a crisis shows that this group is far more independent than large entities that generally rely on banking in terms of funding and operations. The contribution of SME in the government's trade balance is...

I document evidence that financial statement comparability curbs the incorporation of firm-specific information into stock prices, resulting in higher stock price synchronicity in China. The positive comparability-synchronicity relationship is more pronounced when firms operate in culturally...

This paper examines two attributes of earnings press releases issued by firms cross-listed on U.S. stock exchanges: the tone and frequency of forward-looking statements. A more conservative tone and a greater proportion of forward-looking statements are often viewed as contributing to more...

We examine how covlite deals, which are debt contracts that lack systematic covenant compliance requirements, affect financial reporting quality. Examining publicly traded U.S. issuers, we show that firms significantly reduce conservative financial reporting but increase the quality of voluntary...

In recent years, regulators have exempted an increasing number of companies from the requirement to appoint auditors, yet little is known about the role of the accounting profession in preparing and validating the financial statements of unaudited companies. In this paper, we examine empirically...

We examine whether financial statement note disclosures play an enhanced role in value relevance when managers lose the ability to convey information via financial statement placement discretion. Specifically, we consider the setting of ASU 2011-05, which removed the option for firms to report...

Cash flow hedge derivatives are an example of an economic transaction that is not fully portrayed in the financial statements in two key ways. First, while changes in the fair value of the derivative are recorded at each reporting date, changes in the value of the underlying purchase or sale...

Mosques are non-profit organizations in the religious sector. Mosque institutions must and have the right to make responsible financial reports and report to users of mosque institutional financial reports. This study provides an overview of the application of PSAK 45 and ISAK 35 in mosque...

The Ministry of Finance of China has proposed a new lease accounting model to the existing lease accounting standard that requires the capitalization of all operating leases as assets and liabilities. In this case study, the key effects of the application of a new accounting standard —...